Have you seen a gastroenterologist rather than your primary general doctor? Specialsts tend to be more proactive and aware of the current state of the art.

Honestly that’s part of the fun of it. I love when he reacts to the information incredulously, “What? Is that really it??”

Bamboo is not a kind of tree in the slightest. It is a kind of grass.

Thank you for all of this information, I very much appreciate it. And great points about all the gotchas… I suppose it’s like an RV – you have all the problems of a house and all the problems of a vehicle, neatly rolled into one :)

Converting to an electric motor is interesting to me (if I understood correctly). I guess I never thought about that as an option, it makes sense on a sailboat for sure – what kind of battery setup does that require? And if you want to be free of shore power for your other electronics, I suppose that also makes a lot of sense.

I think my boat office will remain a dream, but it’s a fun one to entertain.

I’d love to hear more about your (house?)boat! I live near a river and have thought about doing the opposite – using a boat as my office.

That’s good to know. I don’t believe them, but at least they have not gone full-out with it.

I should know, I’ve followed a few!!

This article is a lot of confident statements that are just shy of florid, with only weak anecdotal support, often just a sentence or even a single clause. It feels like the author leaned almost entirely on an LLM to generate it. It’s so very disjointed and bland.

I imagine to do this they’ll be uploading and scanning all of your text messages.

Edit: I was wrong! They say they won’t.

Came here to post this same thing! Hey there fellow Illinoisian 😎

This is a great point. I have another account on a smaller instance, and there I frequently just read everything in the local feed.

It is just dicey, because income can be related to racial factors. Poor areas in many cities are often overwhelmingly non-white. It’s something HR doesn’t want to touch with a ten-foot pole.

I’ve done a bit of hiring and this won’t pass the legal bar (even asking what town someone lives in can be evidence of intentionally trying to find out if the candidate is of “the right stock”), but I also rather like envisioning a comedy scene of someone trying to use toilets as a sneaky determinant 😆 Very Monty Python.

I’ll have you know it was a utility sink so it doesn’t count!! 🙃

“Oh, beans” is a good one for replacing the “I screwed up” meaning of"damn it".

I like that phrase! Sometimes a flower grows out of manure 😆

Why should I change my name? They’re the ones who suck 😆